This timely study explores the relevance of Virginia Woolf’s texts to questions regarding the dissemination and the deciphering of information in our current political situation, with reference to ‘fundamentalisms’, media consolidation and the stifling of dissent. Judith Allen approaches Woolf as a theorist oflanguage as well as a theorist of the reading process. Closely examining her narrative and rhetorical strategies, she shows how Woolf’s texts both express and enact her politics. The book ranges from Michel de Montaigne to the Dixie Chicks, from the newspaper empire of World War I, the Northcliffe Press, to today’s mainstream newspapers, Rupert Murdoch’s empire and the ‘blogosphere’. Close readings of several of Woolf’s novels and essays, including A Room of One’s Own, Three Guineas and ‘Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid’, focus on her interrogation of language - sometimes single, resonant words - to show how she awakens her readers to new ways of reading, to new questions of their own.
- ISBN: 978-0-7486-3675-4
- Editorial: Edinburgh University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 208
- Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés